Shabby chic taupe and pink bunny keychain

A 20 cm plush bunny keyring in taupe and dusty pink

What you notice first, once it is hanging, is how little it weighs: nothing rigid sits inside, so the bunny leans against the bag instead of swinging away from it. The ears run almost the full height of the body, which is why the silhouette reads as ears before it reads as rabbit. The pile is soft taupe all round, back included.

The skirt: layered tulle over embroidered lace

Below the posy the skirt opens into tiers of pink tulle, every tier backed by lace embroidered with small flowers. Because the tiers are cut to uneven lengths, the scalloped edge appears more than once as you look down the front. The back is just as full, over a plain taupe panel broken only by a central seam.

Pearl beads and a scalloped hem

White pearl beads are dotted at intervals across the top tier, close enough to catch the light and far enough apart not to read as a pattern. Most of them show on the side that faces out once the bunny hangs from a handle.

Clipping it on, and taking it off again

The fitting is a gold-tone lobster clasp on a wide ring. The ring is the part that matters: it is wide enough to pass round a bag handle or a belt loop, not only through a key ring. Swapping the bunny from one to the other takes a second, and nothing has to be unscrewed to do it.

The small trims you only notice up close

Two details are easy to miss in a thumbnail. Between the ears, a dusty pink lace headband carries a small velvet flower with a clear rhinestone set on gold-tone claws. At the neck, a posy gathers one large cream flower with an iridescent rhinestone at its centre, a second cream flower, a darker bloom closer to burgundy, a small peach ribbon rose, green leaves and a few grey beads. That iridescent stone is the part that changes most in the light, shifting between green and violet with the angle you hold it at.

Keeping the plush and the tulle in good shape

Most of the upkeep is occasional rather than routine. If the tiers have flattened, open them out with your fingers before anything else. A brush is only worth using when the pile looks dull, and it should never be dragged against the lie of the fur. The rest is about avoiding water: the fabric flowers and the stones mark easily, so a damp cloth goes round them, never over them. If taupe is not the shade you had in mind, the other colourways in the bunny range run from pale powder tones to brighter ones.